Paper weight



June 9, 1936. A c5. ELLINWOOD PAPER WEIGHT Filed Aug. 16, 1935 M W m 3 mm J/ 5 3/ JZIJBI'Z' llEllim mod Patented June 9, 1936 nnirso smres ---T'PATENT OFFICE PAPER WEIGHT f Albert G. Ellinwood, Goldsbcro, N. c. Application August 16, 1935, Serial No. 36,602 6 Claims. (011120- 8 This invention relates tov a balanced paper weight and has for its object to provide, in a manner as hereinafter set forth an article of such class for weighting down superimposed elements, such as statements, deposit slips, bills, invoices, papers and the like simultaneously in a pair of stacks during the reduction of the height of one of the stacks and the building up of the other.

A further object of the invention is to provide, in a manner as hereinafter set forth, an article ofthe class referred to for weighting down a stack of instruments prior to attention and for weighting down such instruments subsequent to attention in stack like form, without manually removing the article from the instruments, and with the article so formed as topermit of the expeditious removal from under it successively the instruments to be attended to and to permit of expeditiously positioning under it, successively the attended to instruments to weight them down in stack like form.

A further object of the invention is to provide, in a manner as hereinafter set forth, an article of the class referred to for use by bookkeepers for weighting down non-entered and entered statements, etc., simultaneously in spaced piles or stacks in convenient reach and in a manner to prevent scattering.

Further objects of the invention are to provide, in a manner as hereinafter set forth, a paper weight which is simple in its construction and arrangement, strong, durable, compact, capable of being provided with a distinctive advertising display, thoroughly eflicient in the use intended thereby, capable of Weighting down a pair of spaced stacks or piles of bills etc. when in normal position and during the reduction of the height of one stack simultaneously with the increasing of the height of the other stacks, acting as a weighting means when inverted, and inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects which may hereinafter appear the invention consists of the novel construction of paper weight, as will be more specifically described and as is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein embodiments of the invention are shown, but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications may be resorted to which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the balanced paper weight,

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view there- Figure 3 is a top plan view, Figure 4 is a side elevation of the paper weight showing the adaptation thereof, in weighting down position, with respect to a pair of spaced stacks or piles of instruments,

Figure 5 is an end View,

Figure 6 is a side elevation, upon a reduced scale of a modified form, and

Figure '7 is a side elevation, upon a reduced scale of still another modified form.

With reference to Figures 1 to 5 the paper weight which is generally indicated at 8 comprises a body 9 which is rectangular in plan and formed from any suitable material.

The body 9 includes. a pair of end edges l B, l I, a pair of side edges I2, 13, a flat upper rectangular face l4 and a lower face formed of a narrow fiat lengthwise extending central stretch l5 and a pair of oppositely disposed lengthwise extending outer stretches l6, H which incline upwardly from the ends of stretch l5 to the end edges I0, II respectively. The side edges l2, l3 gradually decrease in height from points adjacent their vertical medians to the end edges Ill, H respectively. The upper face I4 is fiat throughout and may be provided with suitable advertising matter or a mirror. The end edges III, II are oblong and of less height than the side edges l2, l3. The construction of the body 9 as aforesaid provides it with a central portion of uniform thickness and a pair of outer portions which gradually decrease in thickness throughout from their inner to their outer ends.

Figure 4 illustrates a stack or pile 18 of instruments l9 which are to be attended and it also indicates a stack or pile 20 which is being built up by the instruments I9 after they have been attended to. The paper weight 8 is common to both of said stacks or piles for weighting the instruments down to prevent their scattering. The paper weight 8 when used is arranged so that the stretch l6 will be seated upon stack or pile 18. As the instruments l9 are successively removed from off of stack l8 they are successively inserted under the stretch IT to build up stack or pile 20. The removal of an instrument l9 from under stretch l6 and inserted under stretch I! is had without completely lifting the body 9 from off the stacks or piles. The body 9 functions to simultaneously hold the instruments IQ of both stacks or piles in a manner to prevent the instruments l9 from scattering.

The form shown in Figure 6 is the same as that shown in Figures 1 to 5, with this exception that the flat stretch I5 is omitted and that the lower face of body 2| is formed with a pair of oppositely disposed upwardly inclined stretches 22, 23 merging at their inner ends into each other at the transverse median of the lower face of body 2! and at their outer ends terminating at the end edges 24 of body 2|. The joinder of the inner ends of the stretches 22, 23 provides a point 25.

The form shown in Figure '7 is the same as that shown in Figures 1 to 5, with this exception that there is substituted for the flat central stretch [5 a rounded central stretch 26 at the transverse median of the lower face of body 21. The central stretch 25 merges into the inner ends of a pair of oppositely extending upwardly inclined outer stretches 28, 29 Whose outer ends terminate at the end edges 30 of body 21.

Otherwise than that as set forth with respect to the forms shown on Figures 6 and 7, they will be the same as the form shown in Figures 1 to 5.

The bodies 9, 2| and 21 are balanced respectively upon the stretch 15, point 2-5 and stretch 26.

What I claim is:

1. A paper weight comprising a rectangular body having its lower face formed with a pair of oppositely extending inclined stretches extending upwardly from their inner ends to the end edges of said body.

2. A paper weight comprising a rectangular body having its lower face formed with a pair of oppositely extending inclined stretches extending upwardly from their inner ends to the end edges of said body, and said body having its lower face formed with a flat central stretch merging into the inner ends of the said other stretches.

3. A paper weight comprising a rectangular body having its lower face formed with a pair of oppositely extending inclined stretches extending upwardly from their inner ends to the end edges of said body, the said stretches merging into each other to provide a. point at the transverse median of said lower face.

4. A paper weight comprising a rectangular body having its lower face formed with a pair of oppositely extending inclined stretches extending upwardly from their inner ends to the end edges of said body, and said body having its lower face formed with a rounded central stretch merging into the inner ends of the said other stretches.

5. A balanced paper weight comprising a rectangular body formed of a central portion of uniform thickness and a pair of outer portions gradually decreasing in thickness throughout from said central portion.

6. A balanced paper weight comprising a rectangular body formed of a central portion of uniform thickness and a pair of outer portions gradually decreasing in thickness throughout from said central portion, said outer portions being of materially greater length than said central portion, and said body having its upper face fiat throughout.

ALBERT G. ELLINWOOD. 

